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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
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“Let’s go,” Masako said. Sometime after the New Year, she’d begun to hear talk of a strange man hanging around the road that led from the parking lot to the factory. And then several of the part-timers had reported being pulled into the shadows and assaulted before barely escaping; so the company had just issued a warning that the women should walk in groups. They set off through the summer darkness along the unpaved, ill-lit road.
There are so many things wrong in the quote above, and the lack of accountability or countermeasures is insane, because it seems like the only conclusion that the company could come to is that it wouldn’t have happened if they had just walked with a partner instead of by themselves, which is stereotypical victim blaming. If the company actually cared about the wellbeing of their female employees, they would have hired a security guard to watch over the premises or at least installed better lighting, considering that the victims were unable to see their assailant because of the darkness and yet they still have to walk down the “unpaved ill-lit road” every day.
This was an insane introduction to the book, and it really set the mood for how the story is probably going to go from there.
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Larry McMurtry
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I didn't like this book, plain and simple. It wasn't fun to read for the most part and I didn't feel like it changed any part of my life other than, perhaps, how I describe books I dislike. It started off bad and stayed bad for the majority of the book until the last fifty or so pages when it got a little interesting.
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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I just realized this year is almost half over! I’m thinking about all the books I’ve read so far & wondering which ones I will read next!
What’s been your favorite read of 2026?
I think mine was Sula by Toni Morrison or Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell !!!
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It can be confusing at times, but a dying niche that I’ve started to appreciate is when an author embraces the commonality of names. It’s such a small detail, but with many present day books striving for their characters to stand out to the audience, having repeat names gives the reader the chance to consider the unique differences that define how they as an individual and a product of their culture and environment.
In the context of this book, there are a few names that have resurfaced on multiple characters, and despite sharing the same name, their personalities and aspirations and everything about them is unique to them and only them. In addition to this, having the same name used on multiple characters is a good way to showcase the exposition of the world and how culture influences their lives.
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